If there had been an opportunity to have a private placement for the banksters prior to the uplist, we might not have the share price we have now. With a high (and highly inspired) retail ownership, intrigued institutions have no other way to break shares loose for accumulation than to gain a foothold in the nooks or crevices around such things as warrant overhangs and our own negative ruminations - getting a lower bid and ask by selling small lots into the dropping bid. Certainly, they can do (and probably are doing) more nefarious things like naked shorting... They KNOW that retail is mostly tapped out and exhausted from years of waiting. I wish I had understood the potential of this dynamic years ago.
The point is that (IMO) our ownership strength and the illiquidity connected with it are being used against us in order to accumulate shares (on very low volume). Maybe that's stating the obvious, but until we have news of contracts with firm revenue projections, interested institutions will swat our shares around at will to facilitate their accumulation, no matter how painful for us.